Tom Izzo

Forbes.com: Highest Paid College Basketball Coaches

Michigan State University
$3.5 million
Career record: 407-166 (.710)
NCAA Tournament appearances: 14
Titles: 1

A minimum of glitz, no moving around, just a guy who’s spent his entire college head coaching career at a single Midwestern school, winning like crazy. Izzo has taken the Spartans to the tourney every year since 1998, including six trips to the Final Four.
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Highest Paid Col... There are 31 men's college basketball coaches (and five more on the women's side) now making $1 million or more annually. These ten take home the most.

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Sean Miller University of Arizona
$2.3 million
Career record: 187-79 (.703)
NCAA Tournament appearances: 5
Titles: 0

An Elite Eight appearance in his second season at Arizona got Miller, the former Xavier coach, a lucrative extension last spring.
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Jim Calhoun University of Connecticut
$2.3 million
Career record: 866-369 (.701)
NCAA Tournament appearances: 22
Titles: 3

The perennially underpaid Calhoun is finally getting an elite salary – his extension through 2014 pays him $3 million by the last year of the deal.

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Mike Krzyzewski Duke University
$2.4 million
Career record: 925-288 (.763)
NCAA Tournament appearances: 27
Titles: 4

Coach K collects bonuses in many seasons that push his total income over $4 million. And why not? There’s an argument for him as the best of all time.

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Rick Barnes University of Texas
$2.4 million
Career record: 533-262 (.670)
NCAA Tournament appearances: 19
Titles: 0

Barnes has earned multiple tourney appearances at Providence, Clemson and Texas. He’s kicked it up a notch in Austin, where he’s won 72% of his games and made the NCAAs every year since 1999.
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Thad Matta Ohio State University
$2.5 million
Career record: 315-93 (.772)
NCAA Tournament appearances: 9
Titles: 0

Since taking over a scandal ridden program in 2004 that cost former coach Jim O’Brien his job, Matta has led the Buckeyes to four Big Ten crowns while narrowly missing a national title in 2007. He’s inked through 2015, at a salary scheduled to max out at $2.6 million.
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Rick Pitino University of Louisville
$2.5 million
Career record: 608-227 (.728)
NCAA Tournament appearances: 16
Titles: 1

Pitino reportedly raked in over $7 million last year thanks a big retention bonus designed to keep him from jumping to another school or to the NBA. He says he’ll retire after his latest extension ends in 2017. Making it to the end of the deal would mean a 16-year run at Louisville, by far his longest tenure anywhere.
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Bill Self University of Kansas
$3 million
Career record: 469-156 (.750)
NCAA Tournament appearances: 13
Titles: 1

Right after his national title in 2008, Self signed a 10-year extension that nearly doubled his old $1.6 million annual salary. The Jayhawks may have gotten a bargain – Self is headed to his 14th straight NCAA Tournament, a run that dates back to his days at Tulsa and Illinois.
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Billy Donovan University of Florida
$3.5 million
Career record: 417-174 (.706)
NCAA Tournament appearances: 11
Titles: 2

After missing the NCAA Tournament in 2008 and 2009 and suffering a first round exit in 2010, Donovan has gotten the Gators back on track with an Elite Eight appearance last year and a No. 16 ranking this year. His latest extension will keep him in Gainesville through 2016.

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Tom Izzo Michigan State University
$3.5 million
Career record: 407-166 (.710)
NCAA Tournament appearances: 14
Titles: 1

A minimum of glitz, no moving around, just a guy who’s spent his entire college head coaching career at a single Midwestern school, winning like crazy. Izzo has taken the Spartans to the tourney every year since 1998, including six trips to the Final Four.
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John Calipari University of Kentucky
$4 million
Career record: 495-153 (.764)
NCAA Tournament appearances: 13
Titles: 0

Calipari signed a two-year extension last summer after taking the Wildcats to the Final Four. The deal will keep him in the $4 million range through 2019. Calipari has now taken three schools (UMass, Memphis, Kentucky) to the Final Four, though he’s never won it all.
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